Describes how a Parent Council and school system administrators collaborated to develop a citywide magnet school desegregation plan, which increased parents' choices and introduced competition among public schools for the patronage of parents and students and for achievement of academic excellence. (RDN)

This guide is intended to help public-school educators, policy makers, and others develop a school desegregation plan. The guide presents the basic features of the Controlled Choice Student-Assignment Plan, which was developed to achieve student-body diversity, provide choice regarding one's school of enrollment, and promote school improvement.…

A State by State review of current developments, supplemented with a summary of important developments at the national development such as a Gallup polling of professional educators on action to desegregate the nation's schools and Supreme Court decisions. (JM)

Court intervention in school facility utilization decisions after school closure in the Saint Louis (Missouri) Public School District has resulted in: (1) new decision-making criteria; (2) greater public involvement in decision making; (3) greater coordination of data sources and decision makers; (4) more school conversions; (5) more closures; and…

Analysis of the school desegregation experience in Los Angeles, California, suggests that the voluntary methods chosen by the board of education have had very small impacts on the overall pattern of segregation. A mandatory metropolitan plan would be the best way to achieve stable, long-term desegregation in Los Angeles. (Author/MJL)

Houston (Texas) public schools have been declared officially desegregated. After trying many desegregation methods with varying degrees of success, the school district has used magnet schools in conjunction with majority-to-minority transfers as its primary desegregation tool. Attention has also focused on equal facilities, staff stability, and…

Reviewed are the position of the Internal Revenue Service on racial discrimination and federal income tax exemptions for private educational organizations and possible impacts of the Bakke decision on the issue. (Journal availability: School of Law, Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall, University of California, Davis, CA 95616.) (MSE)

Seattle's voluntary desegregation plans have included a voluntary racial transfer program, a plan to improve middle schools in the central area, and a magnet school program. Their ineffectiveness has led civil rights organizations to complain to the federal government. Community sentiment against court-ordered desegregation revolves around the…

Describes the revised Supreme Court guidelines under which formerly desegregated schools may achieve "unitary standards." Compares the pros and cons involved in applying for unitary status and in applying for a revised desegregation plan under the 1971 Office for Civil Rights desegregation plan. (LMI)

One of the designers of the "Controlled Choice" student-assignment plan of the Boston (Massachusetts) public schools presents his evaluation of options suggested to replace the plan. The three options under consideration do not accomplish the main goal of any student-assignment plan, that is, to improve education. (SLD)

This report analyzes and critiques the Chicago (Illinois) Board of Education's implementation of the administrative initiatives regarding the prevention of within-school segregation under a court-mandated desegregation plan. The board was required to ensure that students did not become resegregated after implementation of the desegregation plan.…

This report summarizes the response of a monitoring commission to the 1986-87 evaluation of the implementation of the Student Assignment Plan (SAP) that is part of a court-mandated school desegregation plan in Chicago (Illinois). Under the SAP, the Board of Education was required to ensure that no school had more than a 70 percent white enrollment…

This report summarizes the response of a monitoring commission to the 1987-88 evaluation of the implementation of the Student Assignment Plan (SAP), part of a court-mandated school desegregation plan in Chicago (Illinois). Under the SAP, the Board of Education was required to ensure that no school had more than a 70 percent white enrollment after…

Discusses court decisions suggesting that the Supreme Court has failed to protect minority civil rights and promote racial integration in metropolitan areas. (DW)

This monograph describes the magnet school program in Connecticut implemented in five urban areas to solve segregation problems. Each school developed its own emphasis; some use the student centered method developed by Bank Street College of New York City while others center their curriculum around the arts. The origin and emphasis of each magnet…